Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-06-16
w. G. II. U.
For God and Home and Native Land.
Edited By Mrs. Chas. l.. Harper.
LOVE OF COUNTRY.

Edited by Mrs. Chas. L. Harper.
LOVE OF COUNTRY.
The fourth of July will soon be here
with all its sacred associations and MEM
cries of our country's Independence
Day and the many liberties and blessings |
secured to us by the long siege of war.
Hats and hands and hearts will shout
Hurrah, from ocean to ocean. Hurrah |
for Washington, and all those noble
heroes who gave their lives to their
country. All honor to them, with no
encouragement to the lightsome mockery |
in which their names are sometimes |
mentioned. The Fourth of July should |
be celebrated in honor and in righteous |
ness, in innocent mirth and joyousness
and in cultivating the true spirit of
patriotism and love of country. Our
best intellect and most noble characters |
should be secured to aid in this cause.
Love of country helps to ennoble ones |
character. Especially should the young |
be guided Alright in celebrating INDIE |
pendence Day. Love of the stars and
stripes with knowledge of the strug-
giles by which our country gained them
is better food for thought than many of
the pastimes presented in the usual cell
ebration. The saloon for instance is a |
disgrace to any Fourth of July celebra-
ton. To benumb mans mind instead |
of inspiring him with new zeal for his
country, his home, his liberty and a life |
worthy of all these, is sin for which no
excuse can be gwen. That some men
want drink is no excuse The stronger |
minded should rule in a matter where |
danger and safety are the only alterna-
tives. Because child cries to play with
the fire. will its mother give it a coal? |
Is there a woman, or
Is there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land?
Whoever hath said it, let him think it and |
live and act for his country. The coun-
try needs the best he can do, and fortu- |
nately the moral growth of the country
is through the moral growth of individ-
uals. Among the fifty millions of peo-
pie in the United States, one man may
think his own example or influence I'M
important to the country; but his vote
may be the ruling one in the election.
His life may influence more lives than
he believes. Teach the children to sing,
1 my country IT'S OF the,
Sweet land OF liberty,
or thee sing"
every patriotic American. Recently the
author, visited the Board of Trade in
Chicago, and soon it was whispered
through the galleries and down to the
wheat pit, the author of America was
with them. Instantly the commercial
interests stood still, and that vast num-
Der of money changers DOTTED their hats,
and with thrilling earnestness sang the
first two stanzas of the great hymn.
The author stepping forward gave
them gracious recognition. They then
sang the last stanza in manner ex-
pressing their most heartfelt admiration
and honor of the man whose written
words touch the minds and hearts of
men. This beautiful incident again illus
| trates that men in their best moods bow
reverently at the shrine of truth, true
manhood, true womanhood, true great |
ness, true patriotism.
Milwaukee reports 9SS saloon licenses.
Evidently, the large cities are the centers
of intemperance. They might be called
the cancers of intemperance. I'm the
great cities civilizations brought face to
face with barbarism;" more through IN
temperance than any other evil.
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The International Sunday School Con- |
vention. The fifth triennial session of
this great moral association was held
recently in Chicago. The work is hand
in hand with Temperance work. Mr.. |
f. L. Clark, of Iowa, author of the Clark
Bill, made one the telling speeches, on
the topic, Sundry School Work on the
Frontier. When he was through another
speaker said of him, Mr.. Clark knows
how to mix politics and religion, for his
politics are of a kind that can mix with
religion, temperance politics. Like
Mr.. Cough he will make a speech on
whatever subject you give him, but it
always comes out temperance speech.
Bible Temperance and study of temper
ance in the Bible formed large part of
the discussions of the convention
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w. C. T. U. meeting next Friday.
Come.
Why not encourage boys to select
good friends and then bring them home
to dinner or tea instead of treating them
at saloons or getting drunk for compan-
ionship. Parents, think.
Second iAnnual Commencement OF the
Bloomington High School, Friday,
June IL, at Eight, Z. NJ.
PROGRAMME.
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